Genus EOSTEIPALPUS, nov. 



Type, R. longipennis, Hmpsn. 



Range. S.India; Ceylon 



Palpi rostriform, curved downwards and reaching well beyond 

 the slight frontal tuft; maxillary palpi minute; antennae of 

 female minutely ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs long. Fore wing 

 roduced at aex vein 3 from anle of 



very lon 

 cell ; 4, 



nutely cate ; ae w e spurs ong. ore wng 

 , narrow, and produced at apex ; vein 3 from angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



4511 Rostripalpus longipennis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 128, pi. 154, 

 fig. 20. 



. Dull purplish irrorated 

 with fuscous. Fore wing with 



P a ^ e s p ec ^ s on uter na tf f costa ; 



indistinct erect black medial and 

 post-medial lines ; a fuscous disco- 

 cellular spot. Hind wing with 

 indistinct antemedial and medial 

 -p. 81 black lines, highly angled at 



Bostripalpus longipennis, $ . f . middle ; both wings with a pale 



line at base of cilia. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus COTACHENA. 

 Cotachena, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 275 (1885). 



Type, C. histricalis, Wlk. 



Range. China ; India ; Ceylon ; Solomons. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; f rons rounded ; antennae of male with 

 long cilia ; hind tibiae with the outer medial spur about half the 

 length of the inner. Fore wing with the retinaculum formed by 

 a large valve of scales from below median nervure in both sexes ; 

 the costa arched towards apex ; the outer margin oblique ; the cell 

 short ; vein 3 from beyond angle of cell ; 4, 5 closely approxi- 

 mated for about half their length. Hind wing with the cell very 

 short ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for about one- 

 fourth length ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly 

 with 8. 



4512. Cotachena histricalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 655 ; Hmpsn. III. 



II. f. ix, pi. 172, fig. 5 ; C. fy S. no. 4355. 

 Archemis pubescens, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix, p. 300. 



